Category: World View

MILAN Umberto Bossi, the founder of Italy’s opposition Northern League, was found guilty on Monday of illegally using party funds to pay for family expenses and sentenced to two years and three months in jail. The court in Italy’s financial...

By Luke Baker | JERUSALEM JERUSALEM Israel’s foreign ministry has issued a statement denouncing U.S. billionaire George Soros, a move that appeared designed to align Israel more closely with Hungary ahead of a visit to Budapest next week by Prime...

By Michele Kambas | ATHENS ATHENS President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday he remained ready to negotiate a peace deal with estranged Turkish Cypriots and Turkey, after U.N.-backed talks ended in acrimony last week. The talks, sponsored by...

MEXICO CITY An international investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico was targeted with spying software sold to governments to fight criminals and terrorists, according to a report published on Monday. The spying attempt was the latest exa...

By Ori Lewis | JERUSALEM JERUSALEM Outsider Avi Gabbai was elected chairman of Israel’s opposition Labour party on Monday by beating veteran Amir Peretz, a former defense minister and labor union chief, in a leadership runoff. Gabbai, 50, a relative...

JERUSALEM Three suspects were remanded in custody and a fourth ordered held under house arrest on Monday after Israeli police questioned six people on suspicion of corruption in a $2 billion deal to buy submarines and patrol craft from Germany....

LIMA Peru has recalled its ambassador to Ecuador after Quito refused to stop building a wall along a canal separating the two, Peru’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Monday as both countries expressed concern over flood risks. Peru said construction...

LONDON The parents of a critically ill British baby have a few days to compile new evidence their son would benefit from experimental treatment in the United States, a judge said on Monday, adding that he would not be swayed...

By Neil Marks | GEORGETOWN GEORGETOWN Authorities in Guyana were on the hunt on Monday for a death-row inmate believed to have masterminded a weekend prison riot that destroyed the country’s largest jail and killed a warden. The Camp Street...

ERBIL, Iraq Amnesty International said on Tuesday it had identified a pattern of attacks by Iraqi forces and the U.S.-led military coalition backing them in the battle for Mosul that violated international humanitarian law and may amount to war crimes....

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